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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2015/01/06/december-in-flink.html">December 2014 in the Flink community</a></h2>
      <p>06 Jan 2015</p>

      <p><p>This is the first blog post of a “newsletter” like series where we give a summary of the monthly activity in the Flink community. As the Flink project grows, this can serve as a “tl;dr” for people that are not following the Flink dev and user mailing lists, or those that are simply overwhelmed by the traffic.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/11/18/hadoop-compatibility.html">Hadoop Compatibility in Flink</a></h2>
      <p>18 Nov 2014 by Fabian Hüske (<a href="https://twitter.com/fhueske">@fhueske</a>)</p>

      <p><p><a href="http://hadoop.apache.org">Apache Hadoop</a> is an industry standard for scalable analytical data processing. Many data analysis applications have been implemented as Hadoop MapReduce jobs and run in clusters around the world. Apache Flink can be an alternative to MapReduce and improves it in many dimensions. Among other features, Flink provides much better performance and offers APIs in Java and Scala, which are very easy to use. Similar to Hadoop, Flink’s APIs provide interfaces for Mapper and Reducer functions, as well as Input- and OutputFormats along with many more operators. While being conceptually equivalent, Hadoop’s MapReduce and Flink’s interfaces for these functions are unfortunately not source compatible.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/11/04/release-0.7.0.html">Apache Flink 0.7.0 available</a></h2>
      <p>04 Nov 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are pleased to announce the availability of Flink 0.7.0. This release includes new user-facing features as well as performance and bug fixes, brings the Scala and Java APIs in sync, and introduces Flink Streaming. A total of 34 people have contributed to this release, a big thanks to all of them!</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/10/03/upcoming_events.html">Upcoming Events</a></h2>
      <p>03 Oct 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are happy to announce several upcoming Flink events both in Europe and the US. Starting with a <strong>Flink hackathon in Stockholm</strong> (Oct 8-9) and a talk about Flink at the <strong>Stockholm Hadoop User Group</strong> (Oct 8). This is followed by the very first <strong>Flink Meetup in Berlin</strong> (Oct 15). In the US, there will be two Flink Meetup talks: the first one at the <strong>Pasadena Big Data User Group</strong> (Oct 29) and the second one at <strong>Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Events</strong> (Nov 4).</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/09/26/release-0.6.1.html">Apache Flink 0.6.1 available</a></h2>
      <p>26 Sep 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are happy to announce the availability of Flink 0.6.1.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/08/26/release-0.6.html">Apache Flink 0.6 available</a></h2>
      <p>26 Aug 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are happy to announce the availability of Flink 0.6. This is the
first release of the system inside the Apache Incubator and under the
name Flink. Releases up to 0.5 were under the name Stratosphere, the
academic and open source project that Flink originates from.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/05/31/release-0.5.html">Stratosphere version 0.5 available</a></h2>
      <p>31 May 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are happy to announce a new major Stratosphere release, version 0.5. This release adds many new features and improves the interoperability, stability, and performance of the system. The major theme of the release is the completely new Java API that makes it easy to write powerful distributed programs.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/04/16/stratosphere-goes-apache-incubator.html">Stratosphere accepted as Apache Incubator Project</a></h2>
      <p>16 Apr 2014</p>

      <p><p>We are happy to announce that Stratosphere has been accepted as a project for the <a href="https://incubator.apache.org/">Apache Incubator</a>. The <a href="https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StratosphereProposal">proposal</a> has been accepted by the Incubator PMC members earlier this week. The Apache Incubator is the first step in the process of giving a project to the <a href="http://apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a>. While under incubation, the project will move to the Apache infrastructure and adopt the community-driven development principles of the Apache Foundation. Projects can graduate from incubation to become top-level projects if they show activity, a healthy community dynamic, and releases.</p>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/02/24/stratosphere-google-summer-of-code-2014.html">Stratosphere got accepted for Google Summer of Code 2014</a></h2>
      <p>24 Feb 2014</p>

      <p><div class="lead">Students: Apply now for exciting summer projects in the Big Data / Analytics field</div>

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      <h2 class="blog-title"><a href="/news/2014/02/18/amazon-elastic-mapreduce-cloud-yarn.html">Use Stratosphere with Amazon Elastic MapReduce</a></h2>
      <p>18 Feb 2014 by Robert Metzger (<a href="https://twitter.com/rmetzger_">@rmetzger_</a>)</p>

      <p><div class="lead">Get started with Stratosphere within 10 minutes using Amazon Elastic MapReduce.</div>

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